Self-Employment Progress Update Video
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We got a new toy (a groovy HD camcorder…with a remote!) so I decided to do a video update this week. I really think the remote option should come with every flip-type camcorder. With more and more people doing videos on their blogs and websites, It makes sense to be able to sit in your chair and be able to start and stop recording without getting up or fiddling with your keyboard. I’ll do a review for our video camera after I’ve had some time to get more familiar with it. So far, I’m impressed with it, especially for doing blog videos. But you’ll have to let me know what you think. Does it work here or not?
Progress Overview
Overall, our frustrations with blog design and time management continue to be a thorn in our sides. However, we’re still making progress and we’re pretty excited about what we’re doing. You’ve gotta be stoked about your passion, otherwise, the first brick of frustration would knock you right out of the game. But we’re not going anywhere, except straight ahead, steady and strong.
January 2010 is here. I hope you’ve all taken the time to set some important goals for the new year. If you want to start a business, work for yourself, and ditch your 40 hours/week ball and chain, you’re going to have to get really clear on what steps to take to make that a reality. Also, you should try to set up some kind of accountability to keep you in the hot seat and keep you making progress. That’s partly why we started this blog. We want others to be able to learn something from our experiences as well as hold us accountable for our actions (or non-actions). That’s also why we try to do weekly updates about our progress and goals for each week. Tammy and I enjoyed the holiday season and took a couple guilt-free weeks off. That was totally needed and very refreshing. But now we’ve rolled up our sleeves and are getting in gear again. So for starters, I’ll bring you up to speed on our activities since the last update.
Every day is getting better and better because each day I get closer to the time when I can quit my day job. Every week, we set up our goals and knock ‘em down. And this week was no different. Not only did we nail down things on our list, we also got to some other things.
We made some good progress over the past week and scratched a few more items off the list. A little while back, we started off with a long checklist of steps we needed to take in order to start our businesses, and each week we’ve been crossing things off the list. It a great feeling. Tammy and I like to talk about where we could be in a few months at our current rate of progress, and what our lives could be in 6 months to a year. We’re very optimistic but we also keep ourselves in check.
This is the third Quitter Profile we’ve posted; the first two were profiles of future Quitters. This is our first profile of someone who actually escaped his day job, started an online business, and is now living a true success story. Pat is a regular guy who suddenly found himself facing a difficult situation. What I love about his story is that this could be anyone’s story. With so many people loosing their jobs and facing tough times, I feel that Pat’s story can be an inspiration to us all…a story that shows us the possibilities, if only we’re willing to take a chance and be bold.
This week was yet another productive week of moving forward in our business goals. A lot of the work we’re doing has to be done using good, old-fashioned leg work and snail-mail. When you’re excited about moving forward as quickly as you can, it’s very easy to get impatient. I was eagerly watching the mailbox every day, just waiting for some kind of confirmation about permits and licenses. When we finally got the confirmation I was all freaking out about, it came in the form of a message on our answering machine. So I was watching the mailbox for nothing! I could hear Yoda saying, “Patience you must have if a successful Internet business you’re going to create.”
